The last dance
Subtitle: encountering death and dying
By: Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland.
Contributors: Strickland, Albert Lee.
Edition: 8th ed.
Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9780073405469
Subjects: Death -- Psychological aspects -- Textbooks; Death -- Social aspects -- Textbooks
Genres: Textbooks.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-626) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Attitudes toward death : a climate of change; title: Learning about death : the influence of sociocultural forces; title: Perspectives on death : cultural and historical; title: Death systems : mortality and society; title: Health care : patients, staff, and institutions; title: End-of-life issues and decisions; title: Facing death : living with life-threatening illness; title: Last rites : funerals and body disposition; title: Survivors : understanding the experience of loss; title: Death in the lives of children and adolescents; title: Death in the lives of adults; title: Suicide; title: Threats of horrendous death; title: Beyond death/after life; title: The path ahead : personal and social choices.